Time: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University



Please note: I'm increasingly using CiteULike and del.icio.us for my bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Browse what's on this page and then check out CiteULike, del.icio.us, CompPile, and the MLA International Bibliography (requires SU ID) for more. A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.


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Last updated 16 January 2007

Alliez, Eric. Capital Times. Trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele. U Minnesota P, 1995.

Aronson, Anne. "Composing in a Material World: Women Writing in Space and Time." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 17.2 (Spring 1999): 282-289.

Berkhofer, Robert F., Jr. Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1995.

Berman, Art. Preface to Modernism. Champaign: U Illinois P, 1994.

Berman, Marshall. All that Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. 2nd ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998.

Berry, Edward I. "Doing Time: King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail.'" Rhetoric and Public Affairs 8.1 (2005).

Borst, Arno. The Ordering of Time: From the Ancient Computus to the Modern Computer. Trans. Andrew Winnard. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1993.

Bourdieu, Pierre. Homo Academicus. Trans. Peter Collier. Stanford UP, 1988.

Brooke, Collin Gifford. "Forgetting to Be (Post)Human: Media and Memory in a Kairotic Age." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.4 (Fall 2000): 775-795.

Campbell, John. Past, Space, and Self. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1994.

Certeau, Michel de. The Writing of History. Trans. Tom Conley. New York: Columbia UP, 1988.

Clark, Grahame. Space, Time, and Man: A Prehistorian's View. Cambridge UP, 1992.

Ekelund, Bo G. "Space, Time, and John Gardner." Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture. Ed. Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

Ermarth, Elizabeth. Realism and Consensus in the English Novel: Time, Space and Narrative. 2nd rev. ed. Edinburgh, 1998.

Ermarth, Elizabeth. Sequel to History: Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational Time. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1991.

Feltes, N.N. "International Copyright: Structuring 'the Condition of Modernity' in British Publishing." The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature. Ed. Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi. Durham: Duke UP, 1994. 271-80.

Forman, Frieda Johles, ed., with Caroran Sowton. Taking Our Time: Feminist Perspectives on Temporality. New York: Teachers College P, 1989.

Fraser, J.T. Of Time, Passion, & Knowledge.

Galison, Peter. "Einstein's Clocks: The Place of Time." Critical Inquiry 26.2 (Winter 2000): 355-389.

Giddens, Anthony. The Consequences of Modernity. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1990.

Giddens, Anthony. The Giddens Reader. Ed. Philip Cassell. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1993.

Gould, Stephen J. The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1980.

Habermas, Jurgen. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Cambridge: MIT, 1990.

Hartley, John. "The Frequencies of Public Writing: Tomb, Tome, and Time as Technologies of the Public." Democracy and New Media. Ed. Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2003. 247-270.

Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. New York: Bantam Books, 1988.

Heidegger, Martin. History and the Concept of Time: Prolegomena. Trans. Theodore Kisiel. Indiana UP, 1985.

Hesse, Douglas. "Essays and Experience, Time and Rhetoric." Writing Theory and Critical Theory. Ed. John Clifford and John Schilb. New York: Modern Language Association, 1994. 195-211.

Jack, Jordynn. "Chronotopes: Forms of Time in Rhetorical Argument." College English 69.1 (Sept. 2006): 52-73.

Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918. London: Weidenfeld, 1983.

Klein, Wolfgang. Time in Language. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Kort, Wesley A. Modern Fiction and Human Time: A Study in Narrative and Belief. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1985.

Kristeva, Julia. "Women's Time." Feminist Theory: A Critique of Ideology. Ed. N.O. Keohane, M.Z. Rosaldo, and B.C. Gelpi. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1982. 31-53.

Kristeva, Julia. "Women's Time." Trans. Alice Jardine and Harry Blake. The Kristeva Reader. Ed. Toril Moi. New York: Columbia UP, 1986. 188-213.

Kwinter, Sanford. Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2002.

Kubler, George. The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1962.

Lofty, John Sylvester. Time to Write: The Influence of Time and Culture on Learning to Write. Albany: SUNY UP, 1992.

Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Inhuman: Reflections on Time. Trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1991.

Mahoney, Deirdre. "Discussing Time Commitments with Students." Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition. Ed. Duane Roen, Veronica Pantoja, Lauren Yena, Susan K. Miller, and Eric Waggoner. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2002. 228-229.

Malotki, Ekkehart. Hopi Time: A Linguistic Analysis of the Temporal Concepts in the Hopi Language. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1983.

Mayer, Caroline E. "Instant Everything." The Washington Post 2 Jan. 2001: E01.

McInerney, Peter K. Time and Experience. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1991.

Miller, Keith D. Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Its Sources. New York: Free P, 1992.

Mutnick, Deborah. "Time and Space in Composition Studies: 'Through the Gates of the Chronotope.'" Rhetoric Review 25.1 (2006): 41-57.

Nugent, David, ed. Locating Capitalism in Time and Space: Global Restructurings, Politics, and Identity. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford UP, 2002.

Palti, Elias Jose. "Time, Modernity, and Time Irreversibility." Philosophy and Social Criticism 23.5 (1997).

Panofsky, Erwin. "Reflections on Historical Time." Critical Inquiry 30.4 (Summer 2004): 691-701.

Pinto, Julio. The Reading of Time: A Semantico-Semiotic Approach. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1989.

Rossum, Gerhard Dohrn-Van. History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. Trans. Thomas Dunlap. U Chicago P, 1996.

Serres, Michel, and Bruno Latour. Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time. Trans. Roxanne Lapidus. Ann Arbor: U Michigan P, 1995.

Sheldrake, Rupert. The Presence of the Past.

Smith, Q. Language and Time. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.

Sosnoski, James J., and Ken S. McAllister. "Circuitous Subjects in Their Time Maps." JAC 25.1 (2005): 31-54.

Stewart, Susan. Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation. New York: Oxford UP, 1991.

ter Meulen, Alice G.B. Representing Time in Natural Language. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1995.

Wald, Robert M. Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes. 2nd ed. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1977.

Whitehead, Alfred North. "Space, Time, and Relativity." The Aims of Education and Other Essays. New York: Macmillan, 1929. 232-247.

Zerubavel, Eviatar. Hidden Rhythms: Schedules and Calendars in Social Life. U Chicago P, 1981.

Zerubavel, Eviatar. The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week. U Chicago P, 1985.